today it’s hot again and I’m still sleepy. I’m trying to get the big table in the front room cleared off, which means, among other things, that I have to go through a couple of years worth of poorly organized backup CDs. bleh. I’d rather take a nap or watch a movie.
and the desknote (otherwise known as the expensive mistake) is blistering the palms of my hands.
Friday we went to look at the laptops at the mac store around the corner from the convention center in Portland. drool….. I want a 12″ ibook. but I need to deal with the shuttle, the desknote, and the kitchen before I can even think about something like that.
sigh. this is such a mopey entry for sort of a low-energy day. muggy, too: the air has more moisture in it than the dirt in the garden does.
oh, the garden. I need to start planning for next year; this year’s been a spectacular disaster. lot of lovely flowers, to be sure. (glads are mostly done, daisies and nasturniums are starting to fade, cosmos are going strong.) but messy, hard to take care of, awkward. and the veggie garden has been about 75-90% failure. some argula, spinach & radish at the beginning, and the lettuce is going strong, but nothing else. whether the corn or carrots pull through will be the determinant of how great a disaster the veggies turn out to be.
not that I haven’t learned from the experience. (more defined and smaller flower beds, more mulch, compost, etc., better timing.) but it’s been pretty demoralizing sometimes, at least on days when I’m already in a bit of a funk.